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Show If JESSE MULLEN IS j GRAKTEOAPAROOH yoniing Bartender May Again $ ' Establish Pull Right to" 'x'. Citizenship, y 1 WAS CONVICTED OF MUKDHR :.j IX THE SKCOXD DECRKB , 'i U State Board of Parclon Deals .' $j Willi Numerous Supplicants if for Mercy. 4 Ii I J ' ;i . Tlic State Hoard of Pardons was riot ' i Jn'Mjb most merciful mood -at the rcgu-, rcgu-, "' lav monthly meeting Saturday afternoon ,1 1 ni the State penitentiary. Three pnr-4 pnr-4 I dons and three paroles were granted, a I and two npplieations for pardon were I positively refused. One prisoner was lyt granted commutation of sentence, but R f.rur other supplicants were turned m down and a fifth whs forced to wait Jji until tho .Juno meeting. One of the most, important actions W. -taken by the board was the pardon n: of Jesse" I' McMillen. formerly a bar 11 IvQcper in Wyoming, who was arrested ,fj an 1S.0S on a charge of murder in the rJ FOCo'nd degree. Ho was convicted in jjWi tlio. Third district court of Salt Lake count v and sentenced June 20, ISOS, 19 to .servo twenty vears in the State pris-Mf pris-Mf I on. Later, however, he was granted ;l ; commutation of sentence, as a reword N i for his services iu the outbreak of Oris, Or-is, f tbbcr. 1005. McMillen has always been fj; a) model prisoner and hns occupied nam-fj nam-fj ) orous position's of trust at the l'";10". H His torm would have expired April 20, f but. because of the fact that he wishes 1 , to return to Wyoming and there was H fear- of his not. being able to again t , time iu prison without being pardoned, i ;lo board consented to his release. 10 take ciTcei April 25, four days before the expiration of his sentence. !..' Marron Turned Down, f.f Tardon' was alFO granted to Thomas H Keel. convicted in the Seventh district ( court of .'Emery county on a charge of ft ! adultery, and" sentenced October 22. f ' j 1007: lb one vear in tim State prison, f C .lames Marron. charged with enibr-z- l element, convicted in tho Third district I court of Salt Lake county and sentenced j October 21, 1007. to eighteen months t in the State prison, was denied a pnr- don. . , : Si Waller Smith, who was convicted in I :' the Third district court of Salt Lake P count v. on a charge of assault with a , 'dcadlv weapon, ami sentenced Novem- t t ber j'2. 1907, to eighteen months iu the ji State prison, was also denied pardon. ' A parole wns granted to Jlyrum J Smith, who wns convicted on a charge Ii of grand larecnv in the Third district i t courti Salt Lake county, and sentenced l bv Judge Armstrong November 7, 1007, to eighteen months in the State prison. Tlie case of Edmund llirseb. charged I I -with embezzlement, convicted in tho it Fourth district Court, of Tintah couu- W tv. -and sentenced September 15. 1007, i n i'o fifteen months iu the State prison, was continued until ihe next meeting. J Pardon was granted to Samuel E. t Wade, who was convicted in the Rec- ; ond district court of Weber county, on a charge of grand larceny, and who was sentenced October 11, 3007, to one I vear in the State prison. .lohii'L. O'Brien, charged with a stai-) stai-) utorv offense, convicted in the Third district court. Salt Lake county, and j: sentenced March HO, 1005 to fifteen j i . years in the State prison, was granted 9, i a parole, g Other Oases. 8 Commutation of sentence was denied jji . Waller E. Burrill.who was convicted S: nf rnbberv in the Third district, court, I, St of Salt, Lake, county, and sentenced C January 27, 100.1, to eighteen 'cars in i ft the Stato irieon.' M Mrs. Loresa Work, convicted of grand IT larecnv in the Third district court, of r Salt Lake county, and' sentenced July f 1). 1007. to one y'enr in the State prison, t was granted commutation of sentence. i f to lake effect April 20. J, Domino La Bisa, convicted of car- I nal knowledge in the Third district court of Salt Lake county, and scn- ft :enccd August 0, J007, to one year in 1 r the State pi'ison, "was refused a co'm- t niutntion of sentence.. i Peter Cliarland, c.ha'rgod with burg- I I lury. convicted in the Third district court, of Salt Lake county and sentenced October 25. 190H, to three years in tho Stato prison, was denied a commutation commuta-tion of sentence. I ' Commutation of sentence was also do- T . . u'ind Aimer 1). Jones, who was con- ,j T?icted'of burglary in the Third district ' cjiurl of Salt Lake count;,-, and sou 1 tenced to three years at hard labor ij State pnsgn. J, .The 'case of William E. Albretch, V Which was continud from a former 1,41 iiieetmg.-waH.consuierea ami again con tinued, until tho Juno meeting. Al-; Al-; ljretch waH convicted of burglary in tho ' Seventh district court of Emery eoun- tV", and sentenced June 10, 1007. to Ijireo years in the State prison at, hard j I labor. He is applying fur commutation Li !' of sentence, j j ,ir William lx. Swan, convicted of felonv ; j jjj tiie Third district court of Salt Lake I I tjpunly and-sentenced October 10. lOO.I, j 'W fiv"e yejii-s' in ihe "State prison, was ' J granted commutation of sentence. |